There’s a rather remarkable advert in this week’s routeONE trade journal. It includes the graphic, left. Where did the advertiser dig up such an image? The answer’s from Microsoft Office’s clip art gallery. Oh dear. Perhaps Microsoft’s engineers feel this is cutting edge, representing today’s modern bus and coach industry.
The eclectic clip art collection includes plenty of reptilian dinosaurs and a strange Bristol FLF Lodekka look-a-like. We’d guess that the coach in question is an early 1970s Leyland Leopard with Plaxton Panorama body. Take a close look immediately below the windscreen and you can make out a small NBC “double N” logo.
Saturday, 13 May 2006
Seventies Flashback
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A damned decent piece of machinery, the old Leopard/Plaxton.
Coach design is probably the only field left in road public transport where standards haven't completely disintegrated. Why? A better class of passenger? More money in it? You might fancy investigating that.
A fine piece of machinery, yes. Big but, though and that was their performance on hills. Without a splitter gear box, Leopards would almost stall on motorway ascents. OK so I exagerate for effect but the only vehicles going slower were Bedford coaches!
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